Re: [microblaze-uclinux] FPGA apps?

[Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matthew,

Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> 	Where are the apps? Linux on FPGA is a means to an end, not an end in
> itself: familiar development environment for new FPGA tools. Is there an
> archive of apps that run under MicroBlaze? With MicroBlaze omitting
> fork() in favor of vfork() (inherited from uCLinux, with no MMU), even
> the ancient Unix multitasking patterns are unavailable.

I don't understand what you mean here. uClinux supports true
multitasking, using vfork doesn't preclude this. It does
preclude the child running in the parents context, but there
is ways around this, and in many typical embedded applications
it is just not a problem in practice.

Regards
Greg



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